A comprehensive review of data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach in energy efficiency

A Mardani, EK Zavadskas, D Streimikiene… - … and sustainable energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
The main aim of this review article is to review of DEA models in regarding to energy
efficiency. This paper reviewed and summarized the different models of DEA that have been …

Data envelopment analysis in energy and environmental economics: An overview of the state-of-the-art and recent development trends

A Mardani, D Streimikiene, T Balezentis, MZM Saman… - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Measurement of environmental and energy economics presents an analytical foundation for
environmental decision making and policy analysis. Applications of data envelopment …

[HTML][HTML] The drivers of energy efficiency improvement among nine selected West African countries: A two-stage DEA methodology

FA Sarpong, J Wang, BB Cobbinah, JJ Makwetta… - Energy Strategy …, 2022 - Elsevier
There has been a general outcry globally to ensure sustainable environmental practices by
minimizing CO 2 while increasing economic growth. In general, most African countries have …

Provincial energy efficiency of China quantified by three-stage data envelopment analysis

H Zhao, S Guo, H Zhao - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The current society is confronting with the crisis of fossil energy resources scarcity and
environment deterioration caused by the accelerating development of economy in China …

Innovation performance and influencing factors of low-carbon technological innovation under the global value chain: A case of Chinese manufacturing industry

K Bi, P Huang, X Wang - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2016 - Elsevier
Combing the global value chain framework and linear innovation process model, this paper
analyzes the innovation performance of low-carbon technological innovation activities under …

Measuring CO2 emissions performance of China's construction industry: A global Malmquist index analysis

M Cheng, Y Lu, H Zhu, J Xiao - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization in China has made the construction sector become a significant industry
for CO 2 emissions. Accurately measuring the CO 2 emissions performance of the …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical framework for assessing construction enterprise green innovation efficiency and influencing factors: Evidence from China

X Li, X Liu, Y Huang, J Li, J He - Environmental Technology & Innovation, 2023 - Elsevier
This study explores strategies and mechanisms to improve the efficiency of green innovation
in construction enterprises with a newly constructed theoretical framework. Firstly, a …

Research on carbon emission efficiency in the Chinese construction industry based on a three-stage DEA-Tobit model

M Zhang, L Li, Z Cheng - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021 - Springer
The traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) model usually ignores the influence of
external environmental factors and random interference. This can easily lead to deviations in …

The inequality of city-level energy efficiency for China

N Zhang, M Zhou - Journal of environmental management, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new methodology for measuring energy efficiency inequality based
on the Shephard energy distance function and the “double” stochastic meta-frontier. To …

Embodied energy intensity of global high energy consumption industries: A case study of the construction industry

L Chen, Y Zhao, R Xie, B Su, Y Liu, X Renfei - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The construction industry plays a vital role in global economic development and is also an
important industrial sector affecting global energy consumption. Energy conservation is an …